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• Title:Fire on earth : an introduction / Andrew C. Scott, David M.J.S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne, Martin E. Alexander.
  
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• Author/Creator:Scott, Andrew C.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Bowman, D. M. J. S.
  Bond, William J., 1948-
  Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-
  Alexander, Martin E.
  
• Published/Created:Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: GN416 .S46 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Fire--History.
  Fire management.
  Fire ecology.
  Forest fires.
  Wildfires.
  
• Description:xix, 413 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:"Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life's history. Few processes are as integral, unique, or ancient. Fire on Earth puts fire in its rightful place as an integral part of the study of geology, biology, human history, physics, and global chemistry. Fire is ubiquitous in various forms throughout Earth, and belongs as part of formal inquiries about our world. In recent years fire literature has multiplied exponentially; dedicated journals exist and half a dozen international conferences are held annually. A host of formal sciences, or programs announcing interdisciplinary intentions, are willing to consider fire. Wildfire also appears routinely in media reporting. This full-color text, containing over 250 illustrations of fire in all contexts, is designed to provide a synthesis of contemporary thinking; bringing together the most powerful concepts and disciplinary voices to examine, in an international setting, why planetary fire exists, how it works, and why it looks the way it does today. Students, lecturers, researchers and professionals interested in the physical, ecological and historical characteristics of fire will find this book, and accompanying web-based material, essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in all related disciplines, for general interest and for providing an interdisciplinary foundation for further study."--Publisher's website.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781119953579 (cloth)
  111995357X (cloth)
  9781119953562 (pbk.)
  1119953561 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:pt. I. Fire in the earth system
  1. What is fire?
  How fire starts and initially spreads
  Lightning and other ignition sources
  The charring process
  Pyrolysis products
  Fire types
  Peat fires
  Fire effects on soils
  Post-fire erosion-deposition
  Fire and vegetation
  Fire and climate
  Fire triangles
  Fire return intervals
  How we study fire : satellites
  Modeling fire occurrence
  Climate forcing
  Scales of fire occurrence
  2. Fire in the fossil record : recognition
  Fire proxies : fire scars and charcoal
  The problem of nomenclature : black carbon, char, charcoal, soot and elemental carbon
  How we study charcoal : microscopical and chemical techniques
  Charcoal as an information-rich source
  Charcoal reflectance and temperature
  Uses of charcoal
  Fire intensity/severity
  Deep time studies
  Pre-requisite for fire : fuel, the evolution of plants
  Charcoal in sedimentary systems
  3. Fire in the fossil record : earth system processes
  Fire and oxygen
  Fire feedbacks
  Systems diagrams
  Charcoal as proxy for atmospheric oxygen
  Burning experiments : fire spread
  Fire and the terrestrial system
  4. The geological history of fire in deep time : 420 million years to 27 million years ago
  Periods of high and low fire, and implications
  The first fires
  The rise of fire
  Fire in the high-oxygen Paleozoic world
  Collapse of fire systems
  Fire at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary
  Jurassic variation
  Cretaceous fires
  Fire at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-P or K-T) boundary
  Paleocene fires
  Fires across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM)
  Dampening of fire systems
  Rise of the grass-fire cycle
  5. The geological history of fire : the last two million years
  Problems of quaternary fire history
  The paleofire working group : techniques and analysis
  Fire and climate cycles
  Fire and humans : the fossil evidence
  Fire and the industrial society
  pt. II. Biology of fire
  6. Pyrogeography : temporal and spatial patterns of fire
  Fire and life
  Global climate, vegetation patterns and fire
  Pyrogeographyy
  Fire and the control of biome boundaries
  The fire regime concept
  7. Plants and fire
  Fire and plant traits
  Fire regimes and the characteristic suite of fire plant traits
  Evolution of fire traits
  8. Fire and fauna
  Direct effects of fire on fauna
  Effect of fire regimes on fauna
  The landscape mosaic and pyrodiversity
  The effect of fauna on fire regimes
  Fire and the evolution of fauna
  9. Fire as an ecosystem process
  Fire and erosion
  Fire and nutrient cycling
  Fire and pedogenesis
  Fire and atmospheric chemistry
  Fire and climate
  10. Fire and anthropogenic environmental change
  Prehistoric impacts
  Prehistoric fire management
  Contemporary fire management
  Climate change
  Fire and carbon management
  Fire regime switches : a major challenge for fire ecology
  Invasive plants and altered fire regimes
  pt. III. Anthropogenic fire
  11. Fire creature
  Early hominins : spark of creation
  Aboriginal fire : control over ignition
  Cultivated fire : control over combustibles
  12. The new epoch of fire : the anthropocene
  The Great Disruption
  The pyric transition
  Enlightenment and empire
  Scaling the transition
  13. Fire management
  Integrated fire management
  Two realms : managing pyric transition
  Institutions : ordering fire
  Conceptions of fire
  pt. IV. The science and art of wildland fire behaviour prediction
  14. Fundamentals of wildland fire as a physical process
  Basics of combustion and heat transfer
  Wildland fire environment concept
  Extreme wildland fire behavior phenomena
  Field methods of measuring and quantifying wildland fire behavior
  15. Estimating free-burning wildland fire behavior
  Historical sketch of wildland fire behavior research
  Models, systems and guides for predicting wildland fire behavior
  Wildland fire behavior prediction process
  16. Fire management applications of wildland fire behavior knowledge
  Wildfire suppression
  Wildland firefighter safety
  Community wildland fire protection
  Fuels management
  Prediction of fire effects.